Welcome to TOSS Foundation

The Texas Open Source Software Foundation is an
organization aimed at promoting and supporting the use of
Open Source Software for PCs and Macs in educational
institutions and the workplace. At the heart of the "Why use
Open Source Software" is the issue of recognizing knowledge as a freedom,
and understanding that software code is very similar to a
mathematical equation (who "owns" A=πr^2?) or
even a cooking recipe (who can't freely mix ingredients?).
Unlike Open Source software, Proprietary software
capitalizes on non-sharing, has a litigious nature, and
keeps the human-readable source code hidden
from software users that have the training and desire
to tweak the software code they work with.

Intimatelly associated with Open Source software are a
series of programs that are interactive in nature, and go
beyond the one way communication that the early web
applications offered.They are collectivelly known as Web
2.0 Applications. Use the link on the right to explore
them.

Open Source
Software and Free
Software are different, even when the source code is
available from both. Free software (such as Adobe Reader)
that doesn't share the source code, is naturally not Open
Source.

Open Source Video Solutions

Avidemux a
free
video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and
encoding Cinelerra
a movie studio in a box; FFMpeg
a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and
stream audio and video; Jahshaka
lets you edit with flexibility and speed, create effects in
real time, animate with unlimited features, paint and design
on moving video, create music with all the tools the pros
use and work in any format at any resolution; and Lives a
video editing system. There are also many Open Source
graphical applications.